
rob aylestone
Moderator
I got my PRS royalties for the quarter, and for me, I was quite pleased, but I just got a part 2 for the streaming services - the first part was for usage in theatre and TV and radio.
It was more money than I normally get, so I thought I'd have a look at where it came from. An instrumental - show track version of an Adele song had nearly 2 million streams - the majority coming from Spotify and TikTok but then I noticed another - The Jennifer Rush Power of Love song - same thing, a show track I did a few years back. The listings went on for pages and went from a handful of plays on Spotify in Zimbabwe, and some tiny islands - BUT - some territories were just mad. In total, there were 21 MILLION streams. That's just mind boggling! 21 million listens to a 3 minute instrumental. Guess what the payment was for the 21 million? £68 which is about $80. I'm pleased with the idea of 21 million listens, but many of my tracks generated a pound or two, and many generated so little, the spreadsheet displayed them as exponential numbers! To put it into perspective, three months on all my music made about £500. I'm not complaining because this is the most I have ever made from recordings. The system pays so little that to get really decent payments requires zillions of streams. Anybody else getting money from streaming?
It was more money than I normally get, so I thought I'd have a look at where it came from. An instrumental - show track version of an Adele song had nearly 2 million streams - the majority coming from Spotify and TikTok but then I noticed another - The Jennifer Rush Power of Love song - same thing, a show track I did a few years back. The listings went on for pages and went from a handful of plays on Spotify in Zimbabwe, and some tiny islands - BUT - some territories were just mad. In total, there were 21 MILLION streams. That's just mind boggling! 21 million listens to a 3 minute instrumental. Guess what the payment was for the 21 million? £68 which is about $80. I'm pleased with the idea of 21 million listens, but many of my tracks generated a pound or two, and many generated so little, the spreadsheet displayed them as exponential numbers! To put it into perspective, three months on all my music made about £500. I'm not complaining because this is the most I have ever made from recordings. The system pays so little that to get really decent payments requires zillions of streams. Anybody else getting money from streaming?